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Executive Presence: What’s Your “Talk Track”?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Elizabeth Freedman (originally published 12/6/2012 on the Bates Communication blog). Elizabeth Freedman is an executive coach and senior communications consultant with Bates Communications. Elizabeth is one of the instructors in our upcoming UNH Woman''s Leadership Development program.

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Your Place in the World of Things

CO2

Read about what Starbucks is doing to recycle their coffee grounds, paper cups and other waste by product. Milton Freedman was wrong! It is not all about profit maximization when the spaceship “earth&# that you live on is decaying from unrealized costs that are the by-product of our consumerism, namely pollution.

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Plan a Satisfying Retirement

Harvard Business Review

That’s a long time,” says Marc Freedman, CEO of Encore.org and the author of The Big Shift. Give yourself time to rest, renew, and restore,” says Freedman. Your goal, says Freedman, is to “figure out what your priorities are at this juncture in your life.”. Freedman advises taking a “try-before-you-buy” approach.